Bio
Sergey Smolentsev obtained his Ph.D. in Thermophysics from Leningrad Polytechnic University (Russia) in 1990 and performed his postdoctoral study on instabilities in liquid metal flows at (Israel) under Prof. . From 1990 he worked as Assistant/Associate Professor at the , and in 1998 joined the University of California, Los Angeles () as a researcher. Sergey served as task leader/coordinator/developer in various national and international projects on fusion technology, such as the Advanced Power Extraction Study (APEX, 1998-2003), ITER Test Blanket Module (2003-2012), US-JAPAN JUPITER/TITAN Collaboration on Liquid Breeders (2001-2012), US-INDIA Collaboration on LM MHD/Heat Transfer for PbLi blankets (2015-2017) and Fusion Engineering System Studies/Fusion Nuclear Science Facility in the US (2015-present). As project leader in a collaboration with EUROfusion on blanket development (2015-2019), Sergey was responsible for the design and construction of the one-of-a-kind Magnetohydrodynamic PbLi Experiment (MaPLE) facility at UCLA. At present, he is a Distinguished R&D Staff Member at ORNL, working on breeding blankets, fuel cycle, liquid metal plasma facing components, and code development for fusion cooling/breeding applications. His research accomplishments have been published in more than 150 scientific articles and one monograph, with an . He is editor of the FLUIDS journal and Executive Committee Member of ANS/Fusion Energy Division. Sergey is married and has 3 children. In his spare time he likes gardening, fishing, mushroom foraying and hiking.